YACHATS -- Twelve years ago, Linda Hetzler decided she wanted to save The Drift Inn, then known simply as Lester's. Owner Lester Blair had suffered several small strokes, and folks around town were ...

Whoops! I ran out of time trying to see coastal Lincoln County in four days. It's hard to do Lincoln City or Newport justice in that amount of time, let alone have more than an hour left over to visit ...

Yachats. Say it YA-hots. This tiny dot on a map of the central Oregon coast had been on our list of places to see for its bountiful beachcombing and dramatic vistas. My wife and two sons, ages 11 and ...